Phillip Schofield’s This Morning career is lying in state on a catafalque and the queue to view it currently runs to 10 miles. Yet still they come. What a testament to the guy’s particular qualities. Then again, when the loathed Hollywood executive Harry Cohn died back in the 1950s and 2,000 people attended his funeral, a comedian remarked: “It only proves what they always say – give the public what they want to see and they’ll come out for it.”
To the perennial snakepit of daytime television, then, with ITV’s morning magazine drawing the rubberneckers on Monday, as former bezzies and co-presenters Phil and Holly Willoughby “battled on” despite reports of a serious rift. Schofield has done hilariously mad things over the past week, like hire crisis management and issue a statement about their amazing friendship and professional partnership. Holly … hasn’t.
